by Kevin Burton How do you get to 50 years? It starts with a day, or a night. Then, you turn your heart toward the sunrise, again and again. There was a night when my parents put me into the family Delta 88 and drove me from our home in Yellow Springs …
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Corneas Made From Pigskin Restore Vision
by Kevin Burton Fourteen blind people had vision restored after receiving cornea implants made from pigskin, according to published reports. Three of those people had perfect vision after undergoing a new surgical technique developed by Swedish researchers, wrote Sarah Kuta in Smithsonian Magazine. The cornea is the clear outer layer that protects …
Studying Social Interactions Of The Blind
by Kevin Burton A North Carolina State University research study offers tips for blind people on how to make social interactions less awkward. I found the story by NC State’s Matt Shipman on http://www.medicalxpress.com. “A recent study highlights the range of uncomfortable situations people living with blindness or visual impairment encounter due …
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What Blindness Is, What Blindness Isn’t
by Kevin Burton You feel sorry for me? I feel sorry for you. We all see what we want to see, full vision, partial vision or no vision. I can’t take in data with my eyes, not very well anyway. I’m doing OK though. And you? You have no concept of what …
Stumbling Into Success Through Humility
by Kevin Burton This is not a story about soccer, but that’s where it starts. One time, I think it was while I was a reporter with the Muscatine Journal, I was assigned to do a soccer story. I still don’t know much about soccer, but back then I knew next to nothing. …
Getaway Day, Above The Old Routine
by Kevin Burton Tomorrow is Getaway Day and there’s just nothing like it. It’s World Series week in the land of beep baseball, baseball for blind players. Getaway Day is about heading to the competition site and into another world. If you’ve never seen beep baseball, check it out on You Tube. …
Thoughts About Disability Pride Month
by Stephen Kuusisto (Nationally-known poet and disability advocate Stephen Kuusisto writes the “Planet of the Blind” blog on WordPress. The following is his post there from July 2.) Because this is “Disability Pride Month” and owing to my own disability I must reveal I’m not “feeling it” as they say. Don’t get …
Suit Alleges DraftKings Violates ADA
by Kevin Burton Uh-oh, looks as if two of my in-groups have beef. A blind man has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against DraftKings, alleging that the gaming company’s website is not accessible to blind users. DraftKings is a daily fantasy sports and sports betting company founded in Boston in 2012. The …
Making Good Use Of Trapped Time
by Kevin Burton It’s twenty minutes to 10 a.m. on a Saturday. My wife and I have agreed that Bible study will be at 10. She’s on the phone. I have twenty minutes to use or lose. What to do? I can’t get into a project that’s too complicated, but neither do …
Quibbles And Bits: Shame On Starbucks?
by Kevin Burton Got some things to say. Don’t want to make a federal, 700-word case of them, just want to have my say as they say in England. Just some things I need to get off my chest. I’ll call them Quibbles And Bits. I’ll serve them up on Page 7 …
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